Bacterial endophytes from moringa oleifera plant for the anti oxidant activity

The design of this study was to scrutinize the phytochemicals and isolate the endophytic fungi harbor in the leaf and stem of medicinal plant Moringa oleifera. Medicinal plants play a key role in traditional medicine and medicinal property is found to be because of phytochemical constituents present in the plants. With its high nutritive values, every part of the tree is suitable for either nutritional or commercial purposes. The free radical scavenging activity of the fungal extracts was studied by 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) method, radical scavenging activity. As the results of DPPH antioxidant activity assay, it was found that DPPH inhibition was significantly increased with increasing amount of extract. An outstanding scavenging activity was obtained from endophytic fungi Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas which were obtained from M. oleifera where they possessed promising activity when compared to the standard control ascorbic acid. Phytochemicals present in the plant confirm that these plants can be used for therapeutic use and traditional medicine. However, double blind researches are less prevalent to further substantiate these properties of moringa. More studies are needed to substantiate the primary mechanisms of moringa for various activities.